Automated systems that measure water level usually rely on flow, pressure or ultrasound sensors. This approach, however, often return invalid results, as debris or sediment easily gets caught up in the sensors. This motivated Dr. François Birgand (North Carolina State University) to design an entirely new type of water level measurement system, based on The Imaging Source cameras. It is highly affordable and can record the water level of streams, rivers and even the ocean:

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